Probing lepton flavour violation via neutrinoless τ → 3μ decays with the ATLAS detector
This article presents the sensitivity of theATLAS experiment to the lepton-flavour-violating decays of τ → 3μ. A method utilising the production of τ leptons via W → τν decays is used. This method is applied to the sample of 20.3 fb<SUP>-1</SUP> of <i>pp</i> collision data at...
| Autores: | , , , , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Institución: | Universidad Nacional de La Plata |
| Repositorio: | SEDICI (UNLP) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/86475 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/86475 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Ciencias Exactas Física ATLAS detector proton-proton collisions |
| Sumario: | This article presents the sensitivity of theATLAS experiment to the lepton-flavour-violating decays of τ → 3μ. A method utilising the production of τ leptons via W → τν decays is used. This method is applied to the sample of 20.3 fb<SUP>-1</SUP> of <i>pp</i> collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2012. No event is observed passing the selection criteria,and the observed (expected) upper limit on the τ lepton branching fraction into three muons, Br(τ → 3μ), is 3.76 × 10<SUP>-7</SUP> (3.94 × 10<SUP>-7</SUP>) at 90 % confidence level. |
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